Indecision Quotes

• Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

  Samuel Butler

  Running, Heart, Enough

  Samuel Butler, “Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto II”

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• I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.

  W. C. Fields

  Indecisive, Used, Used To Be

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• The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Choices, Decision

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.566, Courier Corporation

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• More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Opportunity, Decision, Thieves

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• The worst of all human ailments: indecision.

  Napoleon Hill

  Worst, Humans, Ailments

  Napoleon Hill, Sharon L. Lechter (2011). “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”, p.10, Sharon Lechter

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• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

  William James

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Sadness

  Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 1, ch. 4

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• I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Indecisive

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• The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

  Maimonides

  Self Esteem, Decisions You Make, Risk

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• It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

  Marianne Moore

  Human Nature, Middle, Mankind

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.102, Univ of California Press

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• Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.

  Willie Nelson

  May, Problem

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• Twilight was the worst hour, because it was the hour of indecision.

  Helen Eustis

  Twilight, Hours, Worst

  Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.69, Library of America

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• Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I don't know if I'm sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I'm a bit on my own and that's a very disheartening feeling.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sexy, Thinking, Feelings

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• Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

  Aaron Burr

  Errors, Often Is

  Aaron Burr, Matthew Livingston Davis (1837). “Memoirs of Aaron Burr”, p.337

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• Indecision may or may not be my problem.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Fear, May, Problem

  Song: Don Chu Know

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• When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophical

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• You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Thinking, Numbers, Decision

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.110, Verso

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• When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

  Carolyn Hax

  People, Frustrated, Clarity

  "Carolyn Hax Live: 'If you mean business, then speak business'". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. July 1, 2016.

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• Indecision is a decision.

  Jason Evert

  Decision

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• The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Heart, Emotional

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• What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Gymnastics, Thinking, Decision Making

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Lose The Day Loitering”

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• Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• ... I am At war 'twixt will and will not.

  William Shakespeare

  War

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 29

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• Indecision is a form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!

  Suzanne Evans

  Self, Abuse, Steps

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• More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.

  Morris L. Ernst

  Errors, Behavior, Arise

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• He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

  James Thurber

  Sometimes, Saved

  1945 The Thurber Carnival,'The Glass in the Field'.

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